Improved turret for war-vessels



UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JAMES Il. EADS, OF "T. IIOIIIS, MISSOURI.

IMPROVED TURRET FOR WAR-VESSELS.

Specification forming,` part of Letters Patent No. 35,088, dated April .29, ISG?.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JAMES B. EADS, of the city and county of St. Louis, and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Construction of Gun- Boats; and I do hereby declare the 'following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being` had to the accompan yin g' drawings, making a part of t-his specification, in which- Figure l represents a plan of the deck of the boat. Fig. 2 represents a longitudinal. vertical section through the saine. Fig. 3 represents a vertical transverse section through the wheel of the boat. Fig. 4 represents a side view of the boat. Fig. 5 represents a plan of the interior of the hull, and Fig. G represents a section through the gun-turret.

My invention consists in the location and protection afforded to the pilot, the lookout, and to the paddle-wheel, all within one ball,- proot' case or covering, as will be explained.

The hull ot` the boat may contain the boilers A, engine I3, donkeyeugine C, state-rooms D, arranged as shown in the drawings, or in any other convenient manner. The smokepipe E may be carried backward an d thence up through the wheel-lmnse, and out at the .top ot the shield or turret l?, that protects the wheel, as also the pilot in his position at G, and the lookout at any point around inside of the turret I?, where he or they may see through the holes d t u, Fig. I. Thus this turret, tower, or shield F protects the wheel, the smoke-stacks, the pilot, and the lookout or Iookouts.

I have represented the wheel .I as located at the stern of the boat; but its position may be elsewhere, if preferred.

The guns II are mounted in a turret, I, on the forward part of the boat and remote enough from the pilot and lookout so as not to interfere with their vision.

The turret F may be conical, pyramidal, or semi-spherical in `forni, or ot' a combination of these foi-nis, so that it shields the wheel, the pilot, and the lookout, not meaning to claim aball-proof casing,I that covers the crew, guns, &c., as may be said of vessels that have the whole or nearly` the whole of the deck thus covered, but a wheel-turret which, in addition to shielding the wheel, also altords a protected position to the pilot and to the lookout.

Having thus fu ll nv described the nature and object of my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

Making the turret, tower, or shield F, that protects the wheel, a protection also to the pilot and lookout, one or both, substantially in the manner and tor the purpose herein set forth.

JAS. I3. EADS.

XYilnesses:

A. B. SToUGH'ro'N, H. W. PRICE. 

